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preparer|prɪˈpɛərə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which prepares.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke iii. 32 b, I am no more but a preparer of you to a baptisme of more efficacie and vertue. 1636Prynne Remonstr. agst. Shipmoney 11 The King hath not before this time given no wages to the said Preparers, or Counties, nor Souldiers whom they have brought. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. II. ii. App. 28 The Preparer of the Way to pure Pagan Philosophy. a1890J. Brown Serm. (1892) 100 For that day of wrath, that day of hope there was to come a preparer.
b. spec. One who prepares, dresses, or makes up (food, medicine, manufactured articles, etc.): see prepare v. 5–7.
1553Primer in Liturgies Edw. VI (Parker Soc.) 377 In thy faithful prayers remember Thomas Cottesforde the preparer of this preparative. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vii. (1677) 525 The preparers of the poison..confessed every thing. 1753Act 26 Geo. II, c. 20 §2 The Growers, Preparers and Spinners of such Flax. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 441 Cloth and stuff-makers, cloth-shearers and preparers. 1891Labour Commission Gloss., Preparers, persons employed at the drawing and roving frames in preparing the wool previous to spinning: term used locally at Leicester.
2. A thing used for preparing; † spec. a medicine administered preliminarily to a course of treatment (= preparative B. 1 b).
1610Markham Masterp. i. xciii. 182 Preparatiues or preparers of the body to entertaine more stronger medicines. 1632tr. Bruel's Praxis Med. 60 Preparers... Wormwood and Apples. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 157 Rape and Cole-Seed..'Tis a very good Preparer of Land for Barley or Wheat. |